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This volume continues the series' tradition of bringing together work on clothing and textiles from across Europe. It has a strong focus on gold: subjects include sixth-century German burials containing sumptuous jewellery and bands brocaded with gold; the textual evidence for recycling such gold borders and bands in the later Anglo-Saxon period; and a semantic classification of words relating to gold in multi-lingual medieval Britain. It also rescues significant archaeological textiles from obscurity: there is a discussion of early medieval headdresses from The Netherlands, and an examination of a fifteenth-century Italian cushion, an early example of piecework. Finally, uses of dress and textiles in literature are explored in a survey of the Welsh 'Mabinogion' and Jean Renart's 'Roman de la Rose'.
Author(s): Robin Netherton, Gale R. Owen-Crocker (eds.)
Publisher: The Boydell Press
Year: 2012
Language: English
Pages: 178
City: Woodbridge
Illustrations page vii
Tables ix
Contributors xi
Preface xiii
1. The Unterhaching Grave Finds: Richly Dressed Burials from Sixth-Century Bavaria / Brigitte Haas-Gebhard and Britt Nowak-Böck 1
2. Old Finds Rediscovered: Two Early Medieval Headdresses from the National Museum of Antiquities, Leiden, the Netherlands / Chrystel Brandenburgh 25
3. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Imagined and Reimagined Textiles in Anglo-Saxon England / Maren Clegg Hyer 49
4. Mining for Gold: Investigating a Semantic Classification in the Lexis of Cloth and Clothing Project / Louise Sylvester 63
5. Dress and Dignity in the 'Mabinogion' / Patricia Williams 83
6. Dressing for Success: How the Heroine’s Clothing (Un)Makes the Man in Jean Renart’s 'Roman de la Rose' / Kathryn Marie Talarico 115
7. Anomaly or Sole Survivor? The Impruneta Cushion and Early Italian “Patchwork” / Lisa Evans 133
Recent Books of Interest 155
Contents of Previous Volumes 161
